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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi and Home Entertainment Making a Buzz
Reuters reports that Wi-Fi is stealing the show at Computex in Taiwan: Manufacturers at the trade show focused on linking Wi-Fi-enabled computers to stereos, TVs and DVD players. Gateway came out with a DVD player that can stream music, photos and videos from a PC to a home entertainment center. For now, however, there aren't standards that let these devices communicate with each other. So a TV couldn't communicate with another device like a stereo. But apparently a bunch of chip and computer makers and consumer electronics companies are working together to form such standards....
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5:06:30 PM 
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Source: C|Net
RIM turns a profit
Research In Motion, the maker of the Blackberry wireless handheld, says that it swung to a profit in its most recent quarter, amid a 70-percent rise in revenue.
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4:46:10 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi Annoys Shoppers in Germany
This trial Wi-Fi application in a German grocery store would make me nuts : When regular shoppers walk in the store they pick up a Tablet PC, swipe their affinity card across a bar code reader on the PC and hang it off their cart. When they swipe their card, the PC receives info via Wi-Fi on what the person has bought historically. Then as they walk into an aisle the PC gets info about things the shoppers have bought before in that aisle so the PC can "remind" shoppers of things they might be forgetting to buy. And it displays advertising about items in the aisle. The one cool thing about the application is that shoppers scan products on the PC as they put them in their cart. It's not totally clear how this works but it sounds like the PC sends the total cost of the goods via Wi-Fi to a special check out line so that when the shopper checks out their tally is already there and all they have to do is swipe their card to pay....
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11:01:51 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Telerama Takes on Pittsburgh
Telerama says it has 60 hotspots and 600 users: But it's not clear if those 600 users are monthly subscribers or if some of those have signed up for one time use. Of those customers, only four use PDAs to connect. I think that an increase in PDA users would spur a major uptake of Wi-Fi in the mass market. Wi-Fi customers today are business users who have laptops. But if more people--not just business people--carried around lower cost PDAs, they might start using Wi-Fi for entertainment applications, like downloading music. T-Mobile also has hot spots in Pittsburgh, some of them right next door to Telerama sites. Telerama is participating in Intel's free Wi-Fi day even though Intel isn't officially including Telerama in the day. Telerama hired college students to hang out in its hotspots and talk up the service for the day....
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10:30:00 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi Can be Challenge for Cafes
The Raleigh News and Observer reports on the impending growth of the number of Wi-Fi hotspots: But the story notes that Wi-Fi can offer technical headaches for café owners who may not have the expertise to deal with problems....
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10:06:41 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Infonet to Get into Wi-Fi
Infonet, which offers remote connectivity for large enterprises, said it will offer access to Wi-Fi networks: Early next year it will introduce a new service called MobileXpress and one of the components of the service will allow customers to use Wi-Fi networks. The announcement doesn’t mention any partnerships with hot spot operators....
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9:56:10 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Tully’s and Microsoft to Encourage Wi-Fi Use
Coffee shops will feature Pocket PCs in kiosks: Tully’s signed up to get Wi-Fi via Cometa’s network and now says it has partnered with Microsoft to put Pocket PCs in Seattle Tully’s shops. The idea is to let folks use the Pocket PCs to get a sense of what they can do with Wi-Fi....
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9:45:10 AM
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